Opinion
Dialogue? Or sovereignty sililoquy?
The Parti Quebecois, the frontrunner to win Quebec’s October election, has released its “Blue Book,” a 524-page plan for an independent Quebec, but there’s one chapter missing, and that’s the one on Indigenous relations.
Summer Student Scoop: More than just a summer job
As Akenhnhà:ke starts to settle in and the weather begins to get warmer, many people, including students, are left wondering what will fill their upcoming months.
The media should be at public meetings
It has been nearly two years since the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), at the urging of community members, agreed to hash out a media protocol for public meetings.
Don’t take journalism for granted
Human beings have always been eager gatherers and sharers of information, but journalism as we know it today didn’t always exist, and if the conditions that support it go away, it could be lost. And that would be bad, because journalism matters.
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January 16, 2026Time to go for Legault
The man who compared himself to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa is saying goodbye.
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January 9, 2026Might doesn’t make right
Five years ago, we ran an editorial following the January 6, 2021, siege of the US Capitol by MAGA faithful, egged on by a president who couldn’t accept he lost the election. The headline? “Good riddance to Donald Trump.”
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December 19, 2025The years that fly by
When you work at a newspaper, every week is memorable. Just a quick glance at a front page from months ago can bring back a flood of memories. But while every week is distinct, the year can be a blur when you think of how fast 52 weeks go by.
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December 18, 2025The holidaze are upon us
Everything I write about is through the lens of a grizzled veteran reporter/editor who has seen far too much.
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December 11, 2025Give it back
One need only view the photographs of the scene on the tarmac of the Montreal airport, snow crowding the frame, to know the significance of the moment as 62 Indigenous artifacts touched down on Turtle Island after 100 years at the Vatican.
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December 4, 2025Decide first, consult later
When was the last time you called up Bayview, ordered a large pepperoni, and then turned to your partner and said, “Honey, what do you think about getting pizza tonight?”
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November 28, 2025Teaching the real history
Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.
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November 20, 2025Surveil this!
“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.
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November 14, 2025Reading between the budget lines
When staffers at Canada’s Department of Finance sit down to hammer out a new federal budget, they’re working in the billions of dollars.
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November 7, 2025A plan for Mother Earth?
Okwire’shòn:’a. The trees. They’re mentioned in our old ways of giving thanks because they are that important. They help us breathe cleaner air, they add beauty to our landscape, they protect us from wind and from other people, yet they are so often forgotten these days, most notably with the latest fiasco - Hydro Quebec giving out the contract to cut a ton of them and clear space for their lines.
